Monday, May 18, 2009

Uuuuuuuuuuuugh...

...sitting in a Burger King at the airport in Miami right now. Our flight is at 5:05pm. It is 11:45am right now. We have a lot of sitting around to do. So, I've received a lot of complaints about my shortage of updates in the past few days. See, apparently when they said they had free wifi on the boat, they really meant free wifi for mobile phones only. Anybody with a computer would have to pay by the minute. Not cool. At least I have five hours to put together a post to bring everyone up to date.
Stephanie will be reading, and that kid will continue to think that I was taking a picture of him. Well after my last post, Stephanie and I headed out in our limo (aka: taxi) to the beach.
It was a windy, overcast day. Hours of hair preparation were defeated. Eyes were squinted shut. Stuff was flying about.
After the ceremony, a few pictures were taken. Champagne was poured. Toasts were made. Sunburns were acquired. We hadn't even got to the cruise ship yet and Stephanie was well-done. That made a cruise to the Bahamas a little tricky. Much time was spent trying to figure out how to avoid sunshine. However, the most tragic part of our vacation is that my fancy-pants new camera did not want to behave. It really messed up some potentially great pictures. Here's an example:
No bueno. When we were all done at the beach we took a taxi to our boat, where we headed to our first stop, Nassau, Bahamas.
Stephanie and a very dark ocean. A friend of mine, Andrew, used to live in the Bahamas, and gave us some tips on what to do when we got there. Well, it ended up to be more of a list of foods to consume. We walked probably two or three miles to Goldies, a restaurant Andrew recommended, to try to knock as many items off the list as possible. I picked up a Goombay Punch, a pineapple flavored soda, on the way there (an item from the list). When we sat down, we already knew what we were going to have. Two items from the list, conch salad and conch fritters. I ordered some lobster, just in case this conch stuff didn't work out for us. After all, it is the animal that lives in this:
...there was a good chance it would end poorly. It took about an hour for us to get our food, which meant the conch fritters
and one of my three Goombay Punches were on the house.
The fritters were amazing, the salad had too much onions and the lobster was delish. We walked back to the boat, and that was basically our entire experience in Nassau. The next stop was Great Stirrup Cay, a small island owned by the cruise line.
Parasailing was first. I have a few pictures from that. I have some videos that I took as we were actually up there, but they'll have to wait until I get home.
Stephanie and me hiding from the sun, waiting for our parasailing appointment. I had to play nice and smile.
On the way out.
...and she says we don't have enough pictures of us together.
Going... up?
...it was pretty extreme. After that, we had some BBQ and headed back to the boat.
That night, I hit up the in-ship casino (for the second time) and picked up $180. Add that to the $45 I made the first night on the boat, and I almost paid off the cost of both our cruise tickets. Not bad. Not bad at all. When we got back to the room, I found some creature on my bed, wearing my sunglasses...
He pulled them off better than I did, so I let him keep the glasses. That's about it for now... I'll put up those videos I promised later.

1 comment:

  1. For a moment there I thought you were off to get married... where's the 411 on the ceremony? We need pictures, too. We need at least one photo of the pair of you on your wedding day :-p

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